“Vannin comes to Steren with over 30 years of design engineering and product management,” said Darren Rawson, president of Steren Electronics. “His expertise will be valuable in leading the way to new innovative product offerings as Steren prepares for significant growth in the coming years.”

Vannin will manage a team of engineers and product managers and will have full responsibility for leading complex cross-functional product development projects for the CATV, SATV, Construction and Consumer Electronics markets.

For the past 5 years, Vannin served as engineering manager for Belkin where he led product design and development teams to engineer consumer products. Prior to Belkin, Vannin held management positions with XtremeMac and Eclipse by Fujitsu-Ten. He is responsible for 3 patents and 6 pending patents, is the winner of 3 WCES Innovation awards, 7 IASCA International car sound competitions, 9 USAC dB-Drag car sound competitions and holds 5 world records for highest SPL. He has a Masters in Electrical Engineering and is a member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical Engineers), SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers) and AES (Audio Engineering Society).

“I am very excited to join Steren Electronics and am impressed by their passion and commitment. I look forward to bringing technology solutions and product strategies to all Steren’s emerging initiatives,” Vannin said.